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Military Operations: High-Level DOD Action Needed to Address Long-standing Problems with Management and Oversight of Contractors Supporting Deployed Forces

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Prior GAO reports have identified problems with the Department of Defense's (DOD) management and oversight of contractors supporting deployed forces. GAO issued its first comprehensive report examining these problems in June 2003. Because of the broad congressional interest in U.S. military operations in Iraq and DOD's increasing use of contractors to support U.S. forces in Iraq, GAO initiated this foll… more
Date: December 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOD Business Transformation: Defense Travel System Continues to Face Implementation Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) has been working to develop and implement a standard end-to-end travel system for the last 10 years. Over the past several years numerous GAO reports and testimonies have highlighted problems with DOD's travel practices that resulted in wasteful spending of millions of dollars. In response, the department has noted that the Defense Travel System (DTS), in part, will help … more
Date: January 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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International Trade: Customs' Revised Bonding Policy Reduces Risk of Uncollected Duties, but Concerns about Uneven Implementation and Effects Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since 2003, the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been unable to collect at least $480 million in antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duties. In July 2004, CBP revised its policy regarding the continuous bonds (CB) that importers post. The policy potentially significantly increases the amount of the bonds for affected importers. Following the application… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electronic Records Archives: The National Archives and Records Administration's Fiscal Year 2006 Expenditure Plan

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since 2001, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has been working to acquire the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) system, which is intended to address critical issues in the creation, management, and use of federal electronic records. As required by law, the agency submitted its fiscal year 2006 expenditure plan to the congressional appropriations committees, seeking the release of a… more
Date: August 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Trade Adjustment Assistance: New Program for Farmers Provides Some Assistance, but Has Had Limited Participation and Low Program Expenditures

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "While tens of thousands of manufacturing workers have received services through the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, until 2002, farmers and fishermen impacted by imports did not have access to similar assistance. The Trade Act of 2002 (Trade Act) established a new program, TAA for Farmers, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide technical assistance, a cash paymen… more
Date: December 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capital Financing: Department Management Improvements Could Enhance Education's Loan Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), which number around 100, undertake capital projects to provide appropriate settings for learning, but many face challenges in doing so. In 1992, Congress created the HBCU Capital Financing Program to help HBCUs fund capital projects by offering loans with interest rates near the government's cost of borrowing. We reviewed the program by considering (1… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Biscuit Fire Recovery Project: Analysis of Project Development, Salvage Sales, and Other Activities

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 2002, the Biscuit Fire burned almost 500,000 acres of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in southwestern Oregon. In its wake, the Biscuit Fire Recovery Project (Project) is one of the largest, most complex postfire recovery projects undertaken by the Forest Service. Considerable controversy exists over the Project and its salvage sales to harvest dead trees. GAO was asked to determine (1) how t… more
Date: September 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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2010 Census: Census Bureau Generally Follows Selected Leading Acquisition Planning Practices, but Continued Management Attention Is Needed to Help Ensure Success

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "For the 2010 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau (Bureau) is making the most extensive use of contractors in its history to supply a number of mission-critical functions and technologies. Because of the critical role that contractors will play in the 2010 Census, GAO reviewed the Bureau's acquisition planning process. Specifically GAO's objectives were to (1) determine the status of the Bureau's major decenn… more
Date: May 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicaid: Strategies to Help States Address Increased Expenditures during Economic Downturns

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "During economic downturns, states may struggle to finance Medicaid, a federal-state health financing program for certain low-income individuals. States receive federal matching funds for their Medicaid programs according to a statutory formula based on each state's per capita income (PCI) in relation to national PCI. The number of individuals eligible for Medicaid can increase during downturns as a resu… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Human Trafficking: Better Data, Strategy, and Reporting Needed to Enhance U.S. Antitrafficking Efforts Abroad

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Human trafficking is a worldwide form of exploitation in which men, women, and children are bought, sold, and held against their will in involuntary servitude. In addition to the tremendous personal damage suffered by individual trafficking victims, this global crime has broad societal repercussions, such as fueling criminal networks and imposing public health costs. In 2000, Congress enacted the Traffi… more
Date: July 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary Report of the Needs Assessment

Description: This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project, one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress.
Date: June 18, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Justification for the Development of a Bending Magnet Beamline at Sector 10 at the APS.

Description: The long-planned and much-needed merger of EnviroCAT into the Materials Research Collaborative Access Team (MR-CAT) will provide dedicated state-of-the-art facilities that are critical to research on a broad range of issues in environmental sciences. These CATs will focus on developing a bending magnet (BM) beamline for x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) and micro x-ray analysis of environmental samples through integration with existing insertion device (ID) capabilities in XAFS, micro x-ra… more
Date: September 18, 2006
Creator: Kemner, K. M. & Division, Biosciences
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remaining Sites Verification Package for the 100-B-24 Spillway, Waste Site Reclassification Form 2006-051

Description: The 100-B-24 Spillway is a spillway that was designed to serve as an emergency discharge point for the 116-B-7 outfall in the event that the 100-B-15 river effluent pipelines were blocked, damaged, or undergoing maintenance. The site meets the remedial action objectives specified in the Remaining Sites ROD. The results of confirmatory sampling show that residual contaminant concentrations do not preclude any future uses and allow for unrestricted use of shallow zone soils. The results also demo… more
Date: September 18, 2006
Creator: Dittmer, L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Project Overview: Cumulus Humilis Aerosol Processing Study (CHAPS): Proposed Summer 2007 ASP Field Campaign

Description: This white paper presents the scientific motivation and preliminary logistical plans for a proposed ASP field campaign to be carried out in the summer of 2007. The primary objective of this campaign is to use the DOE Gulfstream-1 aircraft to make measurements characterizing the chemical, physical and optical properties of aerosols below, within and above large fields of fair weather cumulus and to use the NASA Langley Research Center’s High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) to make independent m… more
Date: May 18, 2006
Creator: Berkowitz, Carl M.; Berg, Larry K.; Ogren, J. A.; Hostetler, Chris A. & Ferrare, Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Support of Gulf of Mexico Hydrate Research Consortium: Activities to Support Establishment of a Sea Floor Monitoring Station Project. Progress Report: June-September 2005

Description: The Gulf of Mexico Hydrates Research Consortium (GOM-HRC) was established in 1999 to assemble leaders in gas hydrates research. The primary objective of the group has been to design and emplace a remote monitoring station or sea floor observatory (MS/SFO) on the sea floor in the northern Gulf of Mexico by the year 2005, in an area where gas hydrates are known to be present at, or just below, the sea floor. This mission, although unavoidably delayed by hurricanes and other disturbances, necessit… more
Date: May 18, 2006
Creator: Higley, Paul; Woolsey, J. Robert; Goodman, Ralph; Asper, Vernon; Mizaikoff, Boris; Davis, Angela et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Novel Concepts Research in Geologic Storage of CO2, Phase III Progress Report: January-March 2006

Description: As part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) initiative on developing new technologies for storage of carbon dioxide in geologic reservoirs, Battelle has been investigating the feasibility of CO{sub 2} sequestration in the deep saline reservoirs in the Ohio River Valley region. In addition to the DOE, the project is being sponsored by American Electric Power (AEP), BP, The Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO) of the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority, Schlumberger, and Battelle. The main obje… more
Date: May 18, 2006
Creator: Gupta, Neeraj
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CH-TRU Waste Content Codes (CH-TRUCON)

Description: The CH-TRU Waste Content Codes (CH-TRUCON) document describes the inventory of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CH-TRU waste within the transportation parameters specified by the Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste Authorized Methods for Payload Control (CH-TRAMPAC). The CH-TRAMPAC defines the allowable payload for the Transuranic Package Transporter-II (TRUPACT-II) and HalfPACT packagings. This document is a catalog of TRUPACT-II and HalfPACT authorized contents and a description of the metho… more
Date: January 18, 2006
Creator: Westinghouse TRU Solutions LLC
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remaining Sites Verification Package for the 100-B-26 Spillway, Waste Site Reclassification Form 2006-052

Description: The 100-B-26 Spillway waste site is a spillway that served as an emergency discharge point for the 132-C-2 outfall in the event that the 100-B-15 river effluent pipelines were blocked, damaged, or undergoing maintenance. The selected action involved demonstrating through confirmatory sampling that cleanup goals have been met and proposing a reclassification of this site to No Action. The results of the confirmatory sampling demonstrate that residual contaminant concentrations remaining in the s… more
Date: September 18, 2006
Creator: Dittmer, L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CH Packaging Operations Manual

Description: Introduction - This procedure provides instructions forassembling the following CH packaging payload: Drum payload assembly Standard Waste Box (SWB) assembly Ten-Drum Overpack (TDOP)
Date: December 18, 2006
Creator: Westinghouse TRU Solutions LLC
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Increasing the Fuel Economy and Safety of New Light-DutyVehicles

Description: One impediment to increasing the fuel economy standards forlight-duty vehicles is the long-standing argument that reducing vehiclemass to improve fuel economy will inherently make vehicles less safe.This technical paper summarizes and examines the research that is citedin support of this argument, and presents more recent research thatchallenges it. We conclude that the research claiming that lightervehicles are inherently less safe than heavier vehicles is flawed, andthat other aspects of vehi… more
Date: September 18, 2006
Creator: Wenzel, Tom & Ross, Marc
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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AIDS Funding for Federal Government Programs: FY1981-FY2007

Description: This report provides an overview of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spending on HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome) as well as budget numbers for other federal government programs targeting HIV/AIDS.
Date: April 18, 2006
Creator: Johnson, Judith A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Balkan Cooperation on War Crimes Issues

Description: This report discusses Balkan Cooperation on War Crimes Issues.
Date: December 18, 2006
Creator: Kim, Julie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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